A disabled tea vendor lost his elder son after a stunt went horribly wrong onboard a Harbour Line local on Tuesday. Mankhurd resident Bilal Mubarak Chauhan, a second-year junior college student of Commerce, was performing stunts on a CSMT-bound train

WR was prompted to renew its drive between Virar and Borivali with gusto following a rash of complaints.

“We found many passengers boarding trains at Virar but refusing to move in, even though their destination was far off,” said Gorakh Nath Mall, RPF in-charge of Virar station. “These commuters block the entry of others in Vasai or Bhayandar.”

During the drive, RPF personnel in plainclothes first urged passengers standing at doors to move in and make space for others. “On several occasions, they complied with the request. But there were also some unruly commuters who didn’t relent. They were made to get off the train and were booked,” said a WR RPF subinspector who was part of the drive.

In certain cases, commuters put up a resistance and start arguing. “It was then that we told them that travelling on the footboard is an offence,” said the sub-inspector. AK Singh, principal chief security commissioner, WR, confirmed the arrests. “We have strengthened our special teams deployed for reining in the menace of door blocking.” He said currently, 25 men in five teams are turning up the heat against such offenders.

Mirror had on June 4 highlighted a similar initiative by the Central Railway (CR). In just a day, CR had then caught 29 passengers at Dombivali, Diva and Thane stations.

What the law saysOffenders can get a jail term of upto three months, or a fine of upto Rs 500, or both

​​​A 30-year old software engineering was crushed under the wheels of a local train after he tried to board a moving train and slipped after losing his balance. The incident occurred at around 5:28 am on Sunday morning, when Sudharshan Choudhary tried to get into the train while it had already started pulling out of the platform 1 of Dadar station.